Akron s Bounce Innovation Hub is cultivating a software accelerator with diverse founders
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The Bounce Innovation Hub in Akron runs a software accelerator program that helps early stage tech startups.
The tech software sector has struggled with diversity, traditionally being dominated by white males. But the software accelerator at Akron s Bounce Innovation Hub is bucking that trend. It s a very diverse group three female founders and four persons of color, said Jeanine Black, Bounce s chief marketing officer, referring to the accelerator s current enrollment.
And that s with only six companies in the accelerator, which is a three-month, renewable, mentorship-driven program for early stage startups.
Which Ohio cities received the most Paycheck Protection Program money?
The Paycheck Protection Program disbursed $18.48 billion to 147,868 recipients in Ohio, according to Small Business Administration data gathered by a government watchdog organization.
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AKRON, Ohio â The Paycheck Protection Program disbursed $18.48 billion to 147,868 recipients in Ohio, according to U.S. Small Business Administration data gathered by the nonprofit government watchdog organization, Accountable.US.
Records show 11,810 recipients in Cincinnati received $1.82 billion, the largest amount of PPP funding of any city in Ohio.
Cincinnati was followed by Columbus and Cleveland. Columbus businesses received $1.7 billion for 11,422 recipients. Cleveland received $1.33 billion for 1,970 businesses.
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AKRON, Ohio – When the pandemic put on the brakes for a local startup company’s primary business, the young entrepreneur switched things up and began to produce FDA-authorized face shields.
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When the pandemic hit, NelDerm CEO Kevin Nelson switched manufacturing and production from wound dressings for sensitive skin to face shields, selling more than two million
Learning health care workers were succumbing to the virus, NelDerm donated 100,000 face shields to enable Cleveland Clinic health care workers to extend the life of their masks
With a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, NelDerm will return to is core focus of creating wound dressings
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